Throughout the 1920s the FA acted as if it were the law and could do anything. So bad did matters get that in 1927 on this day the high court itself r...
Football seems to have become ever more myopic – whatever the problem is today, that is the BIG problem, and needs to be sorted out with BIG solutions...
by Tony Attwood Most people who take any interest in the history of Arsenal FC know that the first match for what might be called an Arsenal team was ...
By Tony Attwood On this day in 1920 the Arsenal programme contained a piece by Sir Henry Norris, the club chairman, outlining the club’s array of inju...
The notion of a referee having his own team and taking them touring around the country playing charity matches seems very odd today but that is what R...
By Tony Attwood One of the most interesting things about gathering together all these anniversaries is that there can be a very curious mix of connect...
It is always important for a club manager to have a good relationship with his players. When that goes, difficulties arise. Of course some people can ...
Arsenal’s decline under Bertie Mee after winning the double in 1971 was one of the strangest and saddest periods in the history of the club. It is one...
On 31 August 2003 The Times reported the league match against Man City as containing “the worst 45 minutes [by Arsenal] that any of their fans could r...
Geoff Strong played for Arsenal from 1957 to 1964 and showed himself to be a singularly accomplished player. Then he was transferred to Liverpool on t...
It is difficult to know how much damage Stewart Robson (who was born on this day in 1964) has done to Arsenal – if indeed any. His vitriolic attacks o...
5 November contains a mixture of curious Arsenal anniversaries. The first report of an Arsenal floodlit match – in 1889! – Arsenal bottom of the leagu...
The wartime league programmes during both world conflicts are rarely remembered these days, but at the time they did produce some interesting matches ...
Herbert Chapman is of course revered by those who know about Arsenal’s history. And indeed it was the Arsenal History Society (which runs this site) w...
That fortunes can change in football very quickly has always been apparent, but few changes were more puzzling than the collapse of Arsenal in the ear...
George Armstrong, who died on this day in 2000, was one of the most popular Arsenal players of all time, both for his skill and ability, and his endle...
Arsenal were champions and had their up and coming young striker Nicolas Anelka playing for them on this day in 1998. And indeed with Bergkamp out inj...
Although one likes to hope that the more serious newspapers might actually do a bit of research, this is sadly rarely the case, as witness the Guardia...
In 1932 Everton won the league scoring 116 goals in 42 games. That wasn’t the all time record however – for the season before Arsenal had scored 127 a...
Freddie Ljungberg will forever be associated with Arsenal having played 216 games for the club – far more than he played for any other side. He was of...
The Arsenal match on this day in in 2015 is not widely remembered as a major upset, but perhaps it should be. In the league cup Arsenal were defeated ...
by Tony Attwood This is a day that is as good an anniversary of the foundation of football as any other – the day in 1863 that the FA was formed by a ...
By Tony Attwood This was the day in 1924 when the ball hit Arsenal centre forward Jimmy Brain on the head and knocked him out, as it made its way into...
It is probably Bernard Joy’s negative comments upon George Allison, that has ensured that Allison has never received much recognition as one of the gr...
Finding out what players have done after they have left Arsenal is often fascinating. For example, Jens Lehmann famously criticised Arsene Wenger when...
On this day in 1949 Arsenal’s reserve team were accused of smoking after the game. These days such an accusation would be ignored by the club, perhaps...
During the autumn of 1912 it was no secret that Woolwich Arsenal were preparing to move out of their Plumstead ground, and a number of journalists too...
The events of this day in 1990 have always bemused me because for all the world it looked as if the Football League and Football Association were actu...
If you look at this league table there are some elements that might look familiar, but others which seem hard to believe. But when you have got your h...
The Autumn of 2014 was just one of a number of occasions in which the media and some Arsenal supporters attempted to portray Arsene Wenger as a terrib...
There has been a tendency for the last years of Arsene Wenger’s time at Arsenal to be painted as downhill all the way, but in fact there was a lot to ...
It seems hard to imagine that just three years after winning their first double, Arsenal could be 22nd in the league and heading for relegation. The o...
